/how/ , n.
1. E(dgar) W(atson) , 1853-1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
2. Elias , 1819-67, U.S. inventor of the sewing machine.
3. Gordon ( Gordie ), born 1928, Canadian ice-hockey player.
4. Irving , 1920-93, U.S. social historian and literary critic.
5. Julia Ward , 1819-1910, U.S. writer and reformer: author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic (wife of Samuel Gridley Howe).
6. Richard ( Earl Howe ) ( "Black Dick" ), 1726-99, British admiral (brother of William Howe).
7. Samuel Gridley /grid"lee/ , 1801-76, U.S. surgeon and humanitarian.
8. William, 5th Viscount , 1729-1814, British general in the American Revolutionary War.